Max Marston

{{Short description|American golfer (1892–1949)}}

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| fullname = Maxwell Rolston Marston

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1892|6|12}}

| birth_place = Buffalo, New York, U.S.

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1949|5|7|1892|6|12}}

| death_place = Old Lyme, Connecticut, U.S.

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| status = Amateur

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| masters = DNP

| usopen = T19: 1915

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| pga = DNP

| usamateur = Won: 1923

| britamateur = T33: 1923

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Maxwell Rolston Marston (June 12, 1892 – May 7, 1949){{cite book |last1=Elliott |first1=Len |first2=Barbara |last2=Kelly |title=Who's Who in Golf |year=1976 |publisher=Arlington House |location=New Rochelle, New York |isbn=0-87000-225-2 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoingolf00elli/page/126 126–7] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoingolf00elli/page/126 }} was an American amateur golfer. He worked as an investment banker in Philadelphia. He was a member of the Cranford Golf Club in Cranford, New Jersey and lived on Central Avenue in the town.Burditt Newspaper Index, Marston Family Entries, available at http://cranfordhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012_06_11_11_07_50{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

In the 1923 U.S. Amateur at Flossmoor Country Club,{{cite web |url=http://www.flossmoorcc.org/history/players_events.html |title=Great Players, Great Events |publisher=Flossmoor Country Club |accessdate=January 8, 2014}} Marston defeated three former or future Amateur champions: Bobby Jones (1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1930), Francis Ouimet (1931), and Jess Sweetser (1922) in the final (38th hole).{{cite web |url=http://www.usamateur.org/2002/history/champions/1923.html |title=U.S. Amateur – Past Champions – 1923 |publisher=United States Golf Association |accessdate=January 8, 2014}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=950&dat=19231106&id=_N1PAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nlQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=3249,131008 |title=Marston's Fighting Spirit Gives Him Big Golf Victory |newspaper=The Evening News |location=St. Petersburg, Florida |date=November 26, 1923 |page=15 |first=Joe |last=Williams }} He reached the final again in 1933, losing to George Dunlap, 6 and 5.{{cite web |url=http://www.usamateur.org/2002/history/champions/1933.html |title=U.S. Amateur – Past Champions – 1933 |publisher=United States Golf Association |accessdate=January 8, 2014}} Marston, who took lessons from James Maiden,{{cite web|url=http://archive.lib.msu.edu/tic/golfd/article/1958feb62.pdf|website=archive.lib.msu.edu|title=J. C. Maiden, Jones' Teacher, Dies at Age of 76|accessdate=June 9, 2018}} also won the New Jersey Amateur twice{{cite web |url=https://www.njsga.org/_media/competitions/results/archives/archive-am.pdf |title=NJSGA Amateur Championship |publisher=New Jersey State Golf Association |accessdate=January 8, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108182813/https://www.njsga.org/_media/competitions/results/archives/archive-am.pdf |archive-date=January 8, 2014 |url-status=dead }} and the Pennsylvania Amateur three times.{{cite web |url=http://www.pagolf.org/detail.asp?id=102&pid=2 |title=Pennsylvania Amateur – Past Champions |publisher=Pennsylvania Golf Association |accessdate=January 8, 2014}}

Marston played on the first three Walker Cup teams and again in 1934.

He is the namesake of the annual Marston Cup, a tournament for golfers 55 and older run by the Golf Association of Philadelphia.